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Alchemy Pay teams up with Mastercard for ‘NFT Checkout’
Alchemy Pay has partnered with Mastercard to bring “NFT Checkout” – a direct payment method for digital artwork. The company intends the integration to improve accessibility to the NFT market, revolutionizing how users interact with digital artwork. A Medium post announcing the news stated that Mastercard has a presence in over 210 countries and a…
Unbanked shuts down crypto services, says US regulations prevented fundraising
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Percentage of Americans holding, using crypto fell in 2022: Fed survey
Americans holding or using crypto fell from 11% in 2021 to 8% in 2022, per the Fed’s 2022 Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households report – released this month. The Fed attributed the drop in holding and using crypto to the fall in digital asset prices last year. However, the percentage of Americans undertaking crypto transactions…
PayPal subsidiary Venmo to introduce cryptocurrency transfers
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Marqeta’s Mastercard will power Australian prepaid crypto card from Stables
Ad Mastercard will reportedly power the card for Australian stablecoin firm Stables, as announced by mutual partner Marqeta in a March 20 press release. The partnership will allow Stables — which currently offers a digital wallet and stores balances in the USDC stablecoin — to issue Mastercard prepaid cards through Marqeta. Marqeta Mastercards will power…
Federal Reserve says FedNow will go live in July
The U.S. Federal Reserve has announced that its FedNow service will launch this summer, as seen in a statement from the agency on March 15. FedNow service to launch in July The Federal Reserve said that it will begin to certify FedNow participants in April. It will also engage in validation activities to ensure that…
Elon Musk has ambitions of making Twitter the world’s biggest financial institution
Ad Twitter owner Elon Musk said during a conference on March 7 that his social media company aims to become a leading payment service. Musk wants Twitter to be a payment tool In an interview with Morgan Stanley executive Michael Grimes, Musk said: “I think it’s possible to become the biggest financial institution in the…
Ripple survey reveals overwhelming support for crypto payments – regulatory uncertainty sole barrier
Ad Crypto and blockchain are set to become the catalyst for a long-awaited transformation of the “antiquated and exclusionary” payments industry, according to a survey conducted by Ripple and the U.S. Faster Payments Council. The survey found that 100% of respondents believe crypto and blockchain can result in benefits like efficiency and cost saving for…
Spain has highest number of properties available to buy via crypto
Ad Spain became the number one country in the world that offers the highest number of properties available for purchase using cryptocurrencies — 289 properties, according to Forex Suggest’s analysis. Thailand and Portugal follow Spain as the second and third on the list by offering 227 and 130 properties available for purchase with crypto, respectively,…